Average Salary in Norway

[precious007]

Then they know they have that worker by the balls!!!

100% Agree

but sadly that's how this world works for thousands of years.

Someone has to be the Daddy... and the others have to be the rats

[Premium Parrots]

That and hypothetically they also make better work slaves because of having a family to provide for and house/car payments.

Presidents of companies I believe secretly love seeing pictures of cow-workers families and them driving new cars, buying their first home etc..

Then they know they have that worker by the balls!!!

Cow-workers don't drive cars they ride horses. And they sleep either under the stars or in tents, not in new houses.


just saying

[truthwolf1]

Cow-workers don't drive cars they ride horses. And they sleep either under the stars or in tents, not in new houses.


just saying

Thanks Parrots, lol

My grammar/spelling sucks because I barely made it out of public school. My high school counselor advised me not pursue college but to pick up a trade like ditch digger.

[precious007]

Thanks Parrots, lol

My grammar/spelling sucks because I barely made it out of public school. My high school counselor advised me not pursue college but to pick up a trade like ditch digger.

lmao

wtf are cow workers anyways

[Premium Parrots]

lmao

wtf are cow workers anyways

in this country we call them cowboys.

[precious007]

in this country we call them cowboys.

cowboys are cool

they get to dip all day, breathe fresh air and eat healthy ;-)

[sgreger1]

cowboys are cool

they get to dip all day, breathe fresh air and eat healthy ;-)

Dip all day, smell cow farts and definately not eath healthy you mean?

[justintempler]

I don't claim to be all knowing so perhaps you would care to educate me on what specifically you are refering to here.

It's simple...... It's the math

When Social Security was established in 1935, the average life span among Americans was 63. Today the average life span is more than 77 years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
In 1950, 16.5 workers paid retirement benefits for each retiree. By the year 2030, when baby boomers begin leaving the workforce in large numbers, the ratio may be approaching two workers to every one retiree.*
By then, the burden of taxes on each worker may well be unmanageable.
As baby boomers begin to retire, the strain on Social Security is expected to increase, since retirees will, for the first time, begin outnumbering current workers. This aging of the population has led some experts to predict that by 2040 the Social Security system may may run out of funds.*
Does all of this mean you will have no Social Security to draw upon when you retire?
*Source: Social Security Administration, 2010.

http://www.axa-equitable.com/retirem...y-and-you.html

The Social Security fund consists of Government I.O.U.s

Current retirement benefits are paid out of incoming fees paid by people who are starting out in the job market.Robbing Peter's son to pay Paul
The system is not sustainable.

[precious007]

Dip all day, smell cow farts and definately not eath healthy you mean?

lmaoo

it really depends, eating healthy is yet another choice everyone has.

Not one has pushed you to eat all the junk food that's being sold in supermarkets these days ;-)

I was saying that basically a farmer can grow his own food, veggies, animals and so on and eat healthier

[sgreger1]

It's simple...... It's the math


http://www.axa-equitable.com/retirem...y-and-you.html

The Social Security fund consists of Government I.O.U.s

Current retirement benefits are paid out of incoming fees paid by people who are starting out in the job market.Robbing Peter's son to pay Paul
The system is not sustainable.


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I understand that the current model we use is not sustainable, especially since the 1979 laws that figure in an increasing pay out that grows as time moves forward. I wasn't making a comment regarding the solvency of the curent system, I was just saying that SS was asked for by the people and therefore we recieved it. Without social security or some other retirement benefits program, seniors are left out to dry. For example, todays aging baby boomers who are about to retire have almost no savings as it has been repeatedly wiped out multiple times during the various recessions of the last 50 years.


What i'm saying is that we still need a retirement benefits program of some kind, preferably one that isn't in such dire straights as SS currently is. We need to either raise taxes, cut benefits, or find a new source of revenue to pay for these things. We can not simply rely on charity to keep our seniors alive, as social security slowly becomes bankrupt we are going to see an influx of broke seniors and I don't think charity is going to cut it.


Even worse is that a huge percentage of the youth demographic is unemployed right now and will be for years to come, so none of them are paying into SS. We are losing a good 5+ years of SS revenue due to this and that is not a good thing.

Truthfully, the whole SS plan wasn't that well thought out, it was built on the assumption that everything would continue as normal and that there would never be any economic collapses or change in the birth rate.

[norwegian77]

Hi all, I have just found this conversation on net, and I decided to register to be able to give you a first hand information as I am norwegian

So! Yes, salaries doubled from 1999 to 2012. Why? Easy. Oil! ... As the price of oil increased Norway got richer nad richer. Now the average net salary is around 30-35.000 NOK/month, people live on very high standard, no homeless, and unemployment rate is under 3%. Technically everyone has job! The economic crisis made oil prices very high which made Norway very rich! BUT!!!! All rices are very high. In Oslo downtown a flat costs about like in Manhattan! Food, beverages, services, everything is very expensive, if you go out to have some dinner it costs about 60-70 USD per person. Cars are about 3 times more expensive than in USA. One gallon of fuel is around 60 NOK, 11 USD!!
This is the reason why we norwegians love to spend our money in abroad like USA... it is very cheap for us...

[Skell18]

Hi all, I have just found this conversation on net, and I decided to register to be able to give you a first hand information as I am norwegian

So! Yes, salaries doubled from 1999 to 2012. Why? Easy. Oil! ... As the price of oil increased Norway got richer nad richer. Now the average net salary is around 30-35.000 NOK/month, people live on very high standard, no homeless, and unemployment rate is under 3%. Technically everyone has job! The economic crisis made oil prices very high which made Norway very rich! BUT!!!! All rices are very high. In Oslo downtown a flat costs about like in Manhattan! Food, beverages, services, everything is very expensive, if you go out to have some dinner it costs about 60-70 USD per person. Cars are about 3 times more expensive than in USA. One gallon of fuel is around 60 NOK, 11 USD!!
This is the reason why we norwegians love to spend our money in abroad like USA... it is very cheap for us...

Yet petrol is still cheaper in Norway than here in the UK!